Body Double
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4.4 • 96 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Maura Isles deals with death. As a pathologist in downtown Boston, she has seen more than her share of corpses. But never before has the body on the medical examiner's table been her own.
There can be no denying the evidence though. The dead woman is her mirror image right down to the most intimate physical details. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type.
Then a DNA test confirms that Maura's mysterious double is indeed her twin sister, and suddenly an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark and deadly secrets ...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review.BODY DOUBLETess Gerritsen. Ballantine, (352p) Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. As the novel begins, Isles an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn't convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date.
Customer Reviews
Body Double suspense
All the suspense we expect and enjoy with a twist
Body Double
Great storyline, I have yet to read one of Tess’ books that doesn’t deserve 5 stars. Always full of twists that leave you unable to put down & even the overall story & how each surprise is eventually put together, often with an unsuspecting end. That’s the beauty of her books, that each has its own originality, yet there easy to relate & never become dull, with the same cast of some characters, that you never get tired of reading about the progression of their own personal lives, which often are easy to relate to what most of us imagines the inside workings of policing, mixed with thrilling encounters of a blend of evil that absolutely can exist in our society. Excellent Book
The Body Double
Many modern day authors build a flow chart around which they relate all their stories - with a few variations! I have now read a number of Gerritsen's books and found them 'outside' the flow chart system. I have especially enjoyed the Body Double. The flow of characters are a necessary part of what the books now represent as chapters in a much larger collection of developments in the saga of the original characters.